These people have all been described as larger than life. Do you see a common thread?
They are unusual. They're extraordinary. They're uncommon. They seems larger than (what we experience in everyday)life. Their achievements seem enlarged, exaggerated and unbelievable. Wilt Chamberlain, for instance, once scored 100 points in one game. In another, he grabbed 55 rebounds alone. Ask Yao and he'll shake his head – One-hundred points and 55 rebounds, come on. No-one will be able to duplicate these numbers (the 55 rebounds especially) ever if they don't change the rules.
Anyways, you get the idea what it means to describe people or things to be larger, or bigger, than life.
Here are more media examples.
1. A headline:
Composer is larger than life; concert isn't
2. Love the music or not, (Richard) Wagner cannot be ignored. Larger than life in his own lifetime, posthumously he gets no smaller.
3. Long before Elvis Mitchell's last movie review for the New York Times was published, on April 30, it was clear he'd been hired to play against type. Mitchell, over six feet, with two-foot-long dreads (which he tends with Kiehl's products), robed in Costume National and Helmut Lang, will never be your average be-khaki'd Timesman. He's bigger than life, or at least bigger than most print journalists, a road show of pop-culture exuberance who makes the rounds of TV shows, film festivals, and lecture appointments, hobnobbing with stars and industry figures.
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